Abstract
To rapidly remediate facilities after a biothreat agent release, improved turnaround times are needed for sample analysis. Current methods to confirm the presence of a viable biothreat agent are limited by low sample throughput. We have developed a rapid-viability-polymerase chain reaction (RV-PCR) method to determine the presence of viable spores. The method combines high-throughput sample processing with 96-well PCR analysis, which measures a change in real-time, quantitative PCR response arising from increased target-cell populations during culturing. The method accurately detects 1 to 10 live spores in a high-dead spore background (10(6)). Field tests using approximately 1000 biological indicators, each containing 10(6) spores of the B. anthracis surrogate, Bacillus atrophaeus, exposed to seven lethal and sub-lethal chlorine dioxide levels showed no significant difference (p>0.05) between RV-PCR and standard culturing methods for detecting the percent survival of spores. RV-PCR results were obtained in <17 h compared to 7 days for the standard culturing method. High-throughput sample processing and RV-PCR protocols were also developed and tested for synthetic wipe samples containing reference dirt material. RV-PCR protocols...Continue Reading
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